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[Midnight Hotel] April catch-all
Characters: Anyone, everyone.
Date: Month of APRIL, 2016 (2017 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post and April Fool’s Day! Feel free to use this post for anything that happens within the Midnight Hotel during the month, using the subject header to label specific rooms or for specific people. See also the OOC note at the bottom.
Warnings/Rating: Mark your threads if content warnings become applicable, please!
The month of April kicks off with gusto with a Hotel-wide prank.
On April Fool’s Day, everyone will wake up to discover that everything is on the ceiling. Yes, everything – the ceiling is now the floor. Even the people sleeping in the beds are on the ceiling. Careful when you get out – don’t fall!
On the plus side, even things like food and items are affected, as if there’s a small localised anti-gravity field around everything/everyone, so there’s no mess, no fuss; there’s also no flipped skirts, no dangling hair, no blood rushing to the head. Whoever performed the prank has done a lot to make sure it’s fun, rather than a health-hazard.
Of course, some climbing might be needed to reach the fridges, and only the microwaves are really safe to use, since they’re on the ceiling with the furniture – unlike the ovens and stoves. The network console is a little bit more difficult to get to, but someone’s also created a set of hand-holds going from the lobby ceiling to the entry/exit doors (with a lighter-gravity effect so they can be easily used just by pulling oneself along, rather than needing to climb). There’s an area a few feet around the entrance where gravity slowly rights itself, to minimise difficulties getting out the door.
There’s also an area – the sitting area on the lobby balcony, right over Anton’s private rooms – where the anti-grav is ‘malfunctioning’; that is, there’s a zero-gravity effect. (When the kedanese children discover this, about mid-morning, it becomes the favoured kidlet location, and won’t be uncommon to see children floating around over the reception area, shapeshifting miniature wings, flippers or paddles to give them some movement.)
Luckily, there are ways to get around being relegated to the ceiling for a day! For one thing, only people who wear shoes will be affected (no rifling through private drawers here); and only people who were in the Hotel the last few days. Someone walking off the street who hasn’t visited for a while won’t be. On the other hand, someone affected can take an unaffected person’s hand and it would work the same way – the effect will even linger for a little while after, if contact ends.
For those characters who will try to look at the man behind the curtain, the prank is relatively simple. The last few days of March, Anton (with Erskine as a go-between as needed) requested everyone’s shoes with an offer to label them with everyone’s names. The guise comes under the legitimate observation that many kedan who frequent the Hotel take off their shoes while they’re inside, and shoes are getting mixed up – so to prevent a loss of patron’s shoes, Anton will label them. (John Constantine’s shoes, if he turns any of them over, are oh-so-helpfully labelled as the property of ‘Joan of Constantinople’; meanwhile Yorda receives her very first pair of custom leather sandals.)
In the course of the labelling, Anton’s drawn an erasable sigil on the soles of the shoes. These sigils are covered by the name labels, so they aren’t immediately visible, and they show no magical presence until the second part of the prank kicks in overnight: a very subtle ward which covers the whole of the Hotel and dictates which direction the internal gravity falls. The furniture has been bestowed with similar sigils, quite frequently hidden inside River’s labels.
Anton himself will react to the whole thing as if nothing is different, and will perform his usual daily duties with bland impassiveness.
Not all of the kedan approve of the prank, given the circumstances, but on the whole it lightens the Hotel’s atmosphere, even after April Fool’s is over.
After April Fool's the Hotel's furniture will be back to normal! For the rest of the month, none of the kedan in the Hotel are nearly as belligerent as elsewhere and will quite willingly talk to Foreigners, but many of them are obviously grieving, frequently in groups.
There is a definable change to the Hotel's evening processes in April also. Namely, Anton has bought a piano and installed it in the larger dining area, near the unused 'bar'/secondary prep area. Anyone is free to play it during the day, but in the evening, from 7pm to 11pm, Lucifer is on shift to provide mood music. For the whole of this month, many kedan will request dirges or songs otherwise appropriate to grieving for a loved one.
At the same time, Anton will open up the Hotel's kitchen and dining as a walk-in restaurant. This is on a provisional basis to test the veracity of the idea. That means there's an uptick in classiness in the evenings – though there is still an area in the kitchen set aside for those who would prefer to make their own meals or use the prepacked ones, and the service cooks are well aware not to encroach on that space (or steal their utensils). There is a menu with many Earth-influenced dishes (and an occasional kedanese overtone). Many of these tastes are still new to the kedan, that makes the restaurant function fairly popular!
The service area of the kitchen will be open from 5pm to 10pm, but the kitchen itself will remain open at all hours, as is usual, for those who make their own meals. The 'restaurant' kitchen staff are all kedan who had already been cooking meals for their own families, but will now be conditionally members of the staff for the restaurant function. (They will not perform requests outside the offered menu, or meals outside the allotted time, as their duties are limited to the 'restaurant' function rather than the Hotel at large, and they therefore have no obligation to Hotel patrons who aren't also restaurant patrons.)
[APRIL FOOL’S NOTE: If your character is on the staff and you’d like to assume Anton or Erskine asked them to help collect shoes from patrons, feel free! They would have been given the same reason as everyone else.]
[The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top. PLEASE POST TO THE STATUS PAGE IF YOUR CHARACTER WOULD LIKE A ROOM, JOB OR AREA IN THE GARAGE, OR ARE MOVING OUT. Anton will manufacture means of payment until Foreigners are able to properly offer recompense or choose to move out.]
Date: Month of APRIL, 2016 (2017 in-game).
Location: The Midnight Hotel.
Situation: Catch-all post and April Fool’s Day! Feel free to use this post for anything that happens within the Midnight Hotel during the month, using the subject header to label specific rooms or for specific people. See also the OOC note at the bottom.
Warnings/Rating: Mark your threads if content warnings become applicable, please!
The month of April kicks off with gusto with a Hotel-wide prank.
On April Fool’s Day, everyone will wake up to discover that everything is on the ceiling. Yes, everything – the ceiling is now the floor. Even the people sleeping in the beds are on the ceiling. Careful when you get out – don’t fall!
On the plus side, even things like food and items are affected, as if there’s a small localised anti-gravity field around everything/everyone, so there’s no mess, no fuss; there’s also no flipped skirts, no dangling hair, no blood rushing to the head. Whoever performed the prank has done a lot to make sure it’s fun, rather than a health-hazard.
Of course, some climbing might be needed to reach the fridges, and only the microwaves are really safe to use, since they’re on the ceiling with the furniture – unlike the ovens and stoves. The network console is a little bit more difficult to get to, but someone’s also created a set of hand-holds going from the lobby ceiling to the entry/exit doors (with a lighter-gravity effect so they can be easily used just by pulling oneself along, rather than needing to climb). There’s an area a few feet around the entrance where gravity slowly rights itself, to minimise difficulties getting out the door.
There’s also an area – the sitting area on the lobby balcony, right over Anton’s private rooms – where the anti-grav is ‘malfunctioning’; that is, there’s a zero-gravity effect. (When the kedanese children discover this, about mid-morning, it becomes the favoured kidlet location, and won’t be uncommon to see children floating around over the reception area, shapeshifting miniature wings, flippers or paddles to give them some movement.)
Luckily, there are ways to get around being relegated to the ceiling for a day! For one thing, only people who wear shoes will be affected (no rifling through private drawers here); and only people who were in the Hotel the last few days. Someone walking off the street who hasn’t visited for a while won’t be. On the other hand, someone affected can take an unaffected person’s hand and it would work the same way – the effect will even linger for a little while after, if contact ends.
For those characters who will try to look at the man behind the curtain, the prank is relatively simple. The last few days of March, Anton (with Erskine as a go-between as needed) requested everyone’s shoes with an offer to label them with everyone’s names. The guise comes under the legitimate observation that many kedan who frequent the Hotel take off their shoes while they’re inside, and shoes are getting mixed up – so to prevent a loss of patron’s shoes, Anton will label them. (John Constantine’s shoes, if he turns any of them over, are oh-so-helpfully labelled as the property of ‘Joan of Constantinople’; meanwhile Yorda receives her very first pair of custom leather sandals.)
In the course of the labelling, Anton’s drawn an erasable sigil on the soles of the shoes. These sigils are covered by the name labels, so they aren’t immediately visible, and they show no magical presence until the second part of the prank kicks in overnight: a very subtle ward which covers the whole of the Hotel and dictates which direction the internal gravity falls. The furniture has been bestowed with similar sigils, quite frequently hidden inside River’s labels.
Anton himself will react to the whole thing as if nothing is different, and will perform his usual daily duties with bland impassiveness.
Not all of the kedan approve of the prank, given the circumstances, but on the whole it lightens the Hotel’s atmosphere, even after April Fool’s is over.
After April Fool's the Hotel's furniture will be back to normal! For the rest of the month, none of the kedan in the Hotel are nearly as belligerent as elsewhere and will quite willingly talk to Foreigners, but many of them are obviously grieving, frequently in groups.
There is a definable change to the Hotel's evening processes in April also. Namely, Anton has bought a piano and installed it in the larger dining area, near the unused 'bar'/secondary prep area. Anyone is free to play it during the day, but in the evening, from 7pm to 11pm, Lucifer is on shift to provide mood music. For the whole of this month, many kedan will request dirges or songs otherwise appropriate to grieving for a loved one.
At the same time, Anton will open up the Hotel's kitchen and dining as a walk-in restaurant. This is on a provisional basis to test the veracity of the idea. That means there's an uptick in classiness in the evenings – though there is still an area in the kitchen set aside for those who would prefer to make their own meals or use the prepacked ones, and the service cooks are well aware not to encroach on that space (or steal their utensils). There is a menu with many Earth-influenced dishes (and an occasional kedanese overtone). Many of these tastes are still new to the kedan, that makes the restaurant function fairly popular!
The service area of the kitchen will be open from 5pm to 10pm, but the kitchen itself will remain open at all hours, as is usual, for those who make their own meals. The 'restaurant' kitchen staff are all kedan who had already been cooking meals for their own families, but will now be conditionally members of the staff for the restaurant function. (They will not perform requests outside the offered menu, or meals outside the allotted time, as their duties are limited to the 'restaurant' function rather than the Hotel at large, and they therefore have no obligation to Hotel patrons who aren't also restaurant patrons.)
[APRIL FOOL’S NOTE: If your character is on the staff and you’d like to assume Anton or Erskine asked them to help collect shoes from patrons, feel free! They would have been given the same reason as everyone else.]
[The Midnight Hotel’s status page is available here, with the rules at the top. PLEASE POST TO THE STATUS PAGE IF YOUR CHARACTER WOULD LIKE A ROOM, JOB OR AREA IN THE GARAGE, OR ARE MOVING OUT. Anton will manufacture means of payment until Foreigners are able to properly offer recompense or choose to move out.]
Adrien Agreste | OTA
[Adrien is used to unusual situations, it comes hand in hand with living in a city plagued by supervillains who wouldn't be out of place in an episode of the Twilight Zone. You get hit with a hammer made of pigeons, or fight off an army of mummies enough times, you learn to roll with the punches.
He wasn't expecting to wake up to everything being upside down though. That is something that hasn't happened to him yet. Just another weird thing to tick off the list, he guesses. Yay. Getting ready for the day was a task all in itself; not helped by Plagg's running commentary of how easy his life was because he could fly.
Adrien eventually makes it to the kitchen, staring at the stoves below??? him. He glances at a microwave, then exhales; coming to an executive decision.]
I guess I'll settle with cereal.
[B: Piano]
[The arrival of the piano brings no small amount of delight to Adrien's day. Sure, it's one of the many skills foisted on him by his father to maintain absolute control of his schedule, but he'll be damned if he won't enjoy it regardless. He's been playing for years, and in sitting and playing here, it brings a little bit of home back to his routine.
So, on occasion during the day, someone might find Adrien sitting at the piano. Sometimes he plays some piece of music his teacher drilled into his head and sometimes he plays something much more his style of music. He also takes requests! Lucky.]
[C: Cat in the restaurant]
[Adrien wants the restaurant idea to do well. He likes Anton and the hotel a lot, and wants there to be enough footfall for this to be lucrative. Going as himself won't really help matters, he lives here so it's normal for him to eat here. But having a double life can do wonders for this kind of thing.
As such, he'll arrive to the restaurant as Chat, all suited up and looking like someone who lost their way to an anime/furry convention. He saunters in; all swagger and charm, winking at a few staff members and assorted patrons before taking his seat and flicking through the menu.]
Hmmmm. Now what should I have?
[Then, he leans back to the table nearest him, that would be you, sorry your personal space is now his. ]
What're you having? That looks good.
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She decides to strike up a conversation as he finishes up one of the classical pieces, wheeling her chair over. ]
You're quite skilled at playing that. Is this a popular instrument where you're from?
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Thank you, I've been learning for a while. [He nods, smiling fondly at the keys. ]
It is, you don't have pianos where you're from?
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[ The solar system was very large. ]
I can't imagine who would have the means to own something so large and intricate besides the higher ranked Orokin before the fall... and most wouldn't have seen the function.
The Tenno have been researching ancient Earth musical traditions. We have a drum set in our Dojo.
If I can take a 3D image of it, maybe Ordis could build one.
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[Of course there was one already in the Agreste mansion, but Adrien isn't really one to flaunt his father's wealth. The less he needed to talk about that, the better. ]
You do? That's pretty neat, I can't say I've ever played the drums before.
[As Adrien. As Chat, well...that was different. ]
So like a 3D printer kind of thing? Except full sized?
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[ Printer? ]
I don't know... what's a printer?
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It's a machine that makes copies of whatever you ask it to. For a while it could just copy words and images from a screen onto paper, but recently there are some that can print 3D images, too.
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Yes, that sounds a lot like what I have on my orbiter. It's called a Foundry.
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Cool! What's an orbiter?
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Really? So you've travelled through space? That's amazing! I bet you've seen some incredible things.
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I suppose in terms of raw data, Ordis represents a much greater amount of information, but I'm not sure if he has quite the breadth. And he's damaged, so trying to get any of that information is a challenge sometimes.
I think what I like the most about this place, but what I find the most disconcerting, is the pace.
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So is it faster or slower here, to what you're used to, I mean?
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When the entire system is at war, there's never an idle moment. [ Especially with a tireless Cephalon constantly reminding you of that fact. ]
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I'm sorry, that must be hard. Being stuck in the middle of all that fighting.
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I guess this? [ She gestured around them. ]
This is nice. I hadn't really seen 'peace' before. Not peace without tyranny, anyway.
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Yeah. I mean, it must be nice. Being in a place where you're not fighting all the time. Where you can just...take a breath, I guess.
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Whoo, okay that's enough silence. ]
You were playing something else yesterday, I think?
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You mean Ace of Spades?
[He plays a few bars of it. ]
It's a rock song where I come from. By a group called Motorhead.
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I don't really know what those words mean. Musicians of some sort? [ Even that word was a recent one for her. ]
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[He turns in his chair, pulling out his fancy, fancy smartphone. It may not have signal any more, but it still has all his pictures and music, and for that much he's glad. His fingers shift over the screen, finally finding a track with some pretty epic cover art.
The music is rock, for sure, but the same way Queen and the Rolling Stones are. Pretty catchy, all the same. ]
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